Creaking bike
JasonB
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Hello all,
God I havent been on here in ages.
Hope the season is going well for everybody.
I have a question. I bought a Karbona carbon frame for a great price, and am really chuffed with it. However there seems to be a creaking noise appeared. It mainly appears when I push down on the left pedal.
Would anybody know what this could be. I hope it is not the frame. I was hoping that maybe the guy who put my bike together (friend not professional) maybe buggered a bearing on the pedal shaft or something.
Thanks if you can help.
God I havent been on here in ages.
Hope the season is going well for everybody.
I have a question. I bought a Karbona carbon frame for a great price, and am really chuffed with it. However there seems to be a creaking noise appeared. It mainly appears when I push down on the left pedal.
Would anybody know what this could be. I hope it is not the frame. I was hoping that maybe the guy who put my bike together (friend not professional) maybe buggered a bearing on the pedal shaft or something.
Thanks if you can help.
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Best thing to do is to go on the parktools website. They run you through the best way to identifying the creak by eliminating pieces of eqt e.g start by replacing pedal - has creak gone? nah, damn, tighten chainset bolts, has creak gone? nah, damn etc etc.
Try and identify if it is just when you push the pedal down, if so then it is likely to be the pedal, crankset bolts (very creaky normally) or possibly bottom bracket. If you can't isolate it to definitely when you push the pedal it could be the seat/seat post - creaktastic too normally or wheel bearings.
Don't assume creak is coming necessarily from area it seems to be heard from as the frame will resonate the sound from other areas, could be headset or something like that.
Park tools, that's the way fwd - Good luck [:)]
Glucosamine's the answer but wait until Holland and Barrett have one of their half price sales.
[;)]
Mind you I do have a dodgy knee so Samutri may be onto something there.
I think it was pushing to hard on the bracket/bearings causing the creaking.
I got the bike back and it still had the creak, cycled the race and 1115 miles from end to end. When i returned I broke the bike down and went to regrease but went for a second opinion at another shop and was told "your bikes basicly f_+&(*d, the rear fork could come away and the creaking may well be from the frame flexing at the weak point (the creak only came when i was putting effort through the crank and therefore the frame).
Needless to say Im not going back to the first shop
I plan to buy some new pedals, if this doesnt cure it, the bike will be going back to the suppliers.
I had my bike for about 7 months brand new, with 3500 miles on it, there was a clicking noise coming from the chainset, so to eliminate the problem I changed the chain which was streched and also the bottom bracket!
seemed to be ok for a week or so but then guess what...
left crank squeeking noise!!!
took it apart thinking I didin't do the bottom bracket tight enough, tightened it up but same problem.
I gave in and at the moment its sitting in the bike shop!
just got a message on the ansewring maching and I'm sitting here waiting for there call. so they should tell me whats wrong!!
be interesting to hear what they say after reading this thread!!
I will now buy some decent clip ins and shoes. After looking at lots of websites, this is easier said than done. Can anybody recommend a good entry level, for pedals and shoes ?
I need to get some and build confidence, with clip ins. I had the normal embaracing, falling off when I bought my mountain bike clip ins, a few years ago. This was in a heavy line of waiting traffic, in Halifax, I felt a right prawn !!!
I have managed without clip ins since then, now I have got a decent bike, i should get decent equipment and hopefully benefit from this.